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mrg1957 t1_j8ful9e wrote

We live in interesting times, and it's accelerating. First, the global pandemic, a war in Europe with Russia and the West, now, Alliens send in peaceful drones, and we blast them.

We're going to all die or wake up to find we're in an experiment.

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Nicolas-matteo OP t1_j8g60b0 wrote

Plot twist: humanity is one big Truman Show

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Runaround46 t1_j8g7col wrote

What if it's like a giant bird we haven't discovered yet

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RedRocket4000 t1_j8gd2ub wrote

Go to PBS Space Time or many other mostly serious science programs on “Ancestors Simulation “ considering idea that advanced civilization might run simulation where the individuals in it would basically be alive. And fact this could be the primary status for the vast number of “universes” intelligent beings exist in as simulation.

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terenn_nash t1_j8i322j wrote

when physicists push back against simulation theory using the notion that it would take a universe worth of energy to simulate a universe, they are assuming the same physics are at work in the real and the simulation.

when we make up a game world, it has its own rules and restrictions, some emulated from our world, some unique to the simulation.

There is nothing stopping our reality from being a simulation by beings operating under entirely different rules of physics and simulating something on the scale of the universe is their version of No Mans Sky - a procedurally generated universe defined by algorithms and not hand crafted.

and within no mans sky, players have recreated basic games. give them more tools and they can create more complex games within the game - simulations within the simulation.

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ColonelLloydVenture t1_j8h108d wrote

Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?

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mg_ridgeview t1_j8i9jpy wrote

I was thinking the same thing. I never thought I would feel like a character in a really bizarre novel, but here we are.

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Nekroshade t1_j8g34bm wrote

There's no way we aren't living in a simulated reality inside of some quantum computer we've yet to learn how to make

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adamhanson t1_j8hdscj wrote

WWI, WWII, plague of 1812, Cold War, nuclear threat, Vietnam, race riots/segregation, 1930’s stock market crash… we have always lives in interesting times.

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mrg1957 t1_j8hvnub wrote

Those didn't happen in three years.

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Closetedcousin t1_j8fvjim wrote

I thought for sure you were going to start preaching Jesus bullshit

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Upsidedown_boat t1_j8fx4dd wrote

Nah they'd call him a terrorist or a communist provocateur with all his talk about caring for one another and equality and shit

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TheWiseScrotum t1_j8hzgs5 wrote

It’s hilarious to me that you are downvoted. An alien could come literally slap these turds in the face and they’d probably call it a demon and start spouting biblical passages.

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